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Precisely. We cannot ignore our own consciousness and the limitations that places on objective measurements. The universe wouldn't surprise me at all ...
October 30, 2023 at 07:03
This is sort of what I was getting at yes. Like a torus. A kind of self folding geometric process, expanding into itself where spacetime is something ...
October 30, 2023 at 06:56
the act of believing is something. So one can rephrase your sentence as can I really "something about nothing". Its like saying "I believe in the lack...
October 29, 2023 at 16:14
Yes. As it stands, I believe energy requires to transmute into a form that it can interact with. Because information can only arise from interactions ...
October 29, 2023 at 16:07
Allow me to make it mathematical. The singularity state = 0. The manifest state (the universe) = +1 - 1. Both are equivalent to one another. +1 - 1 ca...
October 29, 2023 at 15:29
I'm not surprised that a singularity is where a function goes haywire. Because a function requires components: input, function and output. A singulari...
October 29, 2023 at 15:21
I agree with this as outlined in the OP. However from what was space, time and thermodynamics being created from? For me the answer is Potential. As p...
October 29, 2023 at 15:15
I agree with you gnomon. As per usual lol.
October 29, 2023 at 15:09
Indeed and would agree with them in the sense that the concept of "nothing" is nothing without something. Excuse the pun. They're relative. Its like t...
October 29, 2023 at 14:41
it seems to me this is a book of "conspiracy theories" or a book of "personal biases, fantasy, fiction or delusion" because it tells you what you want...
October 21, 2023 at 16:39
simple example. Ethics is not provable nor testable by scientific method and yet dictates what science is permitted to study and how Science is a tool...
October 21, 2023 at 16:17
So obvious and yet you fail to clarify exactly why. Laughable. All talk no action. Bring on your "actual" arguments.
October 06, 2023 at 16:47
Oh please come off it. It's a). Absurd to assume that physical principles and relationships cannot be explained or at least attempted to be explained ...
October 06, 2023 at 16:42
care to argue a point of some/any form to support your assumption that it is..."BS". A declaration without supporting explanation is hardly philosophi...
October 06, 2023 at 16:25
Intereference can't occur between photons travelling at the same velocity. It is the result of an interaction with a physical barrier that deflects th...
October 06, 2023 at 16:23
What laws would you determine consciousness as obeying. For me consciousness requires a spatial dimension (from which to perceive environment) , energ...
October 06, 2023 at 16:18
Or maybe it feels like being something static and substantial (body) holding something flexible and every changing (perception). Our whole body can be...
October 04, 2023 at 16:10
The first memory is created/stored. Energy pent up in a stable and enduring state, holding information, to later be manipulated and reformulated.
October 04, 2023 at 16:04
Potential energy doesn't require matter, space or time. It's just potential. The moment that potential is converted to something "actionable" it requi...
October 04, 2023 at 16:02
Agreed. The original statement has since been considered again and I now don't agree with my original position. It's too vague and inaccurate. It is i...
October 04, 2023 at 15:50
And consciousness doesn't? And what might be said about the energy we use to live? That which does all the computations and organismal procedures used...
October 04, 2023 at 15:40
I disagree. Consciousness requires storage - namely memory. Without memory, our sense of self, of place, of time, of coherent chronology, breaks down....
October 04, 2023 at 15:10
very apt indeed. If consciousness is a pyramid of complexity, with quantum states at the base, then newtonian physics, then biology and finally comple...
October 04, 2023 at 15:01
Exactly Pantagruel, all matter must possess/carry internal kinetic energy in the form of the bonds that bind and stabilise it's substance/ makeup. If ...
October 04, 2023 at 14:34
Even more so Nils. I think it's a quadralism? Quadratism? Or "dualism squared"? Not sure what to call it. But basically it is a 4 way conversation bet...
October 04, 2023 at 14:01
Yes. Agreed. "different forms" of the "same thing". Ironic and seemingly contradictory but not. I would go further to say that the c2 component is the...
October 04, 2023 at 13:54
time exists based on energetic reactions (tha ability to do work). Energy travels through space/the vacuum (as light) or occupies mass as kinetic ener...
October 02, 2023 at 16:34
I rarely enjoy such wordy/lengthy posts but this one truly captivated me from the outset. It really was well and simply articulated. Your musings are ...
October 02, 2023 at 16:29
"meaning" is applied, not inherent. You can give any value, any weighting, any nuance of meaning, to anything at all, be it a scientific one, philosop...
October 02, 2023 at 15:48
communism doesn't work because humanity doesn't operate as a "perfect community". This can work on a small scale. The "everybody knows everybody" scal...
October 02, 2023 at 15:26
because a property of consciousness is the ability to disagree on what consciousness is/its nature.
September 25, 2023 at 17:05
Interesting. I'm not sure if I agree but all views are welcome. How might one look at a baby and say this is definitely a bad person. Do you suggest g...
September 08, 2023 at 11:06
Not sure if it "fails to account" for intelligibility. I feel that is nurture no? One is nurtured based on the paradigm (culture and form of education...
September 07, 2023 at 18:00
it's important to distinguish "divine hiddenness" from "divine nothingness" or "nothing divine". Hiddenness suggests an ability to be revealed. Divine...
August 21, 2023 at 23:25
if "truth" can be taken as "that which exists" the fiction, imagination, creativity, objectivity and subjectivity and fact are all subsets of that whi...
August 21, 2023 at 23:20
one can know that in order for absolute uncertainty to exist absolute certainty must exist. They're mutually dependent. Ends of spectrums exist. Becau...
August 21, 2023 at 23:15
However light is massless. So where exactly is "it" in the sense of being a thing with a position in space. I think this is relative. In the sense tha...
August 21, 2023 at 23:10
Excellently put. I agree. I imagine a baby as a sort of un differentiated sense of "me" -ness. And learning begins at the the "I" and rather quickly l...
August 21, 2023 at 23:02
Do you mean "special" in the sense of special relativity?
August 21, 2023 at 22:57
For me I use this triad: 1. Thought/perceptions do not equal language. 2. Language does not equal what is observed (reality) . 3. What is observed (re...
July 03, 2023 at 05:12
We should probs wrap up well for that. Sounds chilly. Lol
July 03, 2023 at 05:05
Furthermore, if God is only in the present moment also as you say, and that present moment is always the present moment, then distance/space and time ...
July 03, 2023 at 04:56
Interesting. I will likely be mulling this over several times. A bit like a rainbow then, you can chase it but the faster you chase the faster it esca...
July 03, 2023 at 04:41
This amuses me because it gives a sort of satirical credence to "last Thursdayism". Everything happening, emerging and evolving so rapidly in a telesc...
July 03, 2023 at 04:38
I agree. I never really has much time (excuse the pun) for the idea of dark energy. I think the sharp edge of occams razor can be put to this and as y...
July 03, 2023 at 04:29
Yes! This makes sense thank you :) It's quite amazing that energy has this ability to de-potentialise/become "substantial/substantiated" as matter goi...
July 03, 2023 at 04:21
Yes I see what you mean. The fact that matter cannot travel at the speed of light means it can interact with light. Because light can close the distan...
July 03, 2023 at 04:16
I find this amusing when I think of how light doesn't "experience" any passage of time at c. As we clarified it is matter that occupies a slower frame...
July 03, 2023 at 04:08
This is part of the purpose of the OP. What would such a thing be? I'm merely following the basic idea that if things can change/transform at a slower...
July 03, 2023 at 03:57
what about quantitative change. This also occurs. So it seems that quantitative and qualitative changes occur for most existants. I say most because I...
July 02, 2023 at 17:30